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Ernesto Priego

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Editor & founder, @comicsgrid.com. Senior Lecturer @hcid.city. Sharing and reposting are not endorsement. I am human; I have critical views. Absolutely personal capacity. Mexican British. DMs are not monitored. linktr.ee/ernestopriego

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026
I wish folk stopped posting CFPs as flat images with text that is not machine readable; makes everything harder. We should all know better by now...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 29/09/2026
Compliance sigh
Screenshot of an online course video. In a bright corporate meeting room, three businesspeople sit around a conference table facing a small cardboard robot. Behind the robot stands a hooded person wearing dark sunglasses and gloves, holding a device. A play button appears over the paused video. Below it is the course title, “Losing Millions – How a Deepfake will Fool You”, with an “Exit Course” button on the right.
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🏆 Losing Millions – How a Deepfake will Fool You
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Love this post is multi-authored. It could have used CRediT so we know who did what. It didn't. Not clear if that was intentional...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Looking forward to Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics next Thursday 1st October in That London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per... #GraphicMedicine #ComicsStudies
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Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics
Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID).
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25/09/2026
Open the pod bay doors please, HAL.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
This will read like historical speculative fiction in the UK, but it's reassuring to read about like-minded souls out there in other realities
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
“as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia”. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
I am quite concerned that we (collectively) may be going through one of the darkest periods of our living memory, even if we've been through several already and every time one's wondered if it could get any worse.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/09/2026
So sad and concerning. Happy memories of buying the papers at UEA and also consulting more at the library.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Love how folk will rationalise this by blaming poor data collection, taboo and superstition before daring to hypothetise that higher income does not equal higher levels of structural happiness
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 22/09/2026
Survey takes _about 80 minutes_ to complete. Tell me you don't want the wider community to get involved without telling me you don't want the wider community to get involved... forms.gle/4zsB5U81YAtw...
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Feedback Survey - DOAS Adaptation for OA Books
Are you a university, library, research institute, or another similar community based publisher or platform working with Diamond OA books? Then we need your input! The AEGIS-OA (Activate European Guid...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026
Keep on promptin'. Waiting for the sea: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
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Waiting for the sea
It took just 40 years for the Aral Sea to dry up. Fishing ports suddenly found themselves in a desert. But in one small part of the sea, water is returning.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 16/09/2026
Saint Augustine (13 November 354 - 28 August 430) reminds us love for money trumping love for study was already a thing for students back in his day
12. Page 43. I began actively to set about the business of teaching literature and public speaking, which was the purpose for which I had come to Rome. At first I taught in my house, where I collected a number of pupils who had heard of me, and through them my reputation began to grow. But I now realized that there were difficulties in Rome with which I had not had to contend in Africa. True enough, I found that there was no rioting by young hooligans, but I was told that at any moment a number of students would plot together to avoid paying their master his fees and would transfer in a body to another. They were quite unscrupulous, and justice meant nothing to them compared with the love of money. There [...]St Augustine. Page 13. Continues from previous image. ...was hatred for them in my heart, and it was not unselfish hatred, for I suppose that I hated them more for what I should have to suffer from them than for the wrong they might do to any teacher . . . For their warped and crooked minds I still hate students like these, but I love them too, hoping to teach them to mend their ways, so that they may learn to love their studies more than money and love you, their God, still more, for you are the Truth, the Source of good that does not fail, and the Peace of purest innocence. But in those days I was readier to dislike them for fear of the harm they might cause me than to hope that they would become good for your sake.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
'Staff at the University of Essex are set to strike next week over cuts to 400 full-time jobs. The union, Unison, said admissions advisors, IT technicians, admin workers and other professional services staff would walk out on Monday over the proposals.'
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Essex University staff to strike over plans to cut 400 jobs
Staff will walk out over a plan to cut 400 jobs, which the university says will protect its future
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 15/09/2026
Last night, for real, I dreamt the university campus had become a data center, so there's that.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
“The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the USA has that, in spades!” (sic) www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Trump attacks ‘sick conspiracy’ against AI as tech stocks slide
President hits out after Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX leaders back call to limit ‘reckless’ development
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
"In Britain, more than 320 newspapers closed down between 2009 and 2019" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 14/09/2026
"The next solution, after we wake up, is to return to first principles. What are the ingredients for human flourishing? Once we can articulate that, it’s like a rope that can guide us back to where we should be." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We greet the news that AI could extinguish us with a glazed indifference. What is the way out of this nihilism? | Brigid Delaney
There are several answers, and none of them will be provided by tech. One thing we must do is identify the ingredients for human flourishing
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
"Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities" www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/article/1969...
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Half of employees too busy to deliver meaningful work, survey finds
Experts warn excessive workloads could damage productivity and motivation as staff take on more responsibilities
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers pulitzercenter.org/blog/behind-... via @pulitzercenter.org
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Behind the Story: Uncovering Truths About Mega Data Centers
Para leer esto en español, haga clic aquí. Image The exterior of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) data center in El Burgo, Spain. From the story "Deciphering AI Water Consumption: How Amazon Hides How Mu...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
And I mean, look at that image. It looks AI-generated to me. Is it? We don't know, because UKRI doesn't tell us. Whose idealised version of a research team is that?
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
What can possibly go wrong www.ukri.org/news/ukri-mo...
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UKRI modernises grant assessment for the age of AI
UKRI is updating its grant assessment approach to speed up grant decisions, respond to generative AI and ensure we continue backing the best talent and ideas.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
hahahahaha www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK economy sees surprise growth in July helped by AI boom
The economy expanded by 0.4%, official figures show, whereas analysts had predicted no growth.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
Something deeply disturbing in the normalisation of using drones to commemorate 9/11. Essentially a military surveillance technology. Yeah, pretty (?).
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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As the hype cycle around recent declarations around the eschatonic potential of AI escalate, I want to bring people's attn: to this doc by one of the so-called "fathers" of AI, John McCarthy: www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/slides/d... That first sentence sums up almost everything abt these narratives.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 11/09/2026
On the morning of September 11, 2001 I was meant to catch a plane from Mexico City to Washington, DC to attend ICAF/SPX 2001 (the International Comics and Animation Festival and the Small Press Expo), to be held September 14–16. It was not meant to be, obviously. 🖤
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/09/2026
Hahaha beggars belief www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US citizens will receive $5,000 if Republicans win midterms, Trump claims in lengthy convention speech
President makes offer that would cost US over $1tn and asks voters to ‘pretend that I’m on the ballot’ despite being deeply unpopular among electorate
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026
"Overall reading scores saw particularly steep declines in the past three years, including in skills that matter most in the AI age [...]The instances of “hasty reading” - in which students read quickly but inaccurately - nearly doubled to 9% between 2018 and 2025." www.oecd.org/en/publicati...
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PISA 2025 Results (Volume I)
The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2025 evaluates what students know and can do in science, reading, mathematics and computational problem-solving, assessing how effectivel...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 09/09/2026
Kind reminder: 1st October, 6pm, London: Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics. Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum and Zara Slattery will examine how comics cann open up conversations about disability, neurodiversity, care and belonging. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/panels-per...
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Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics
Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum & Zara Slattery explore disability and neurodiversity in comics. Chaired by Dr Ernesto Priego (City HCID).
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026
I know there must be lots of other posts saying the same, but: Regular, law-abiding people of all backgrounds peacefully protesting genocide: law to ban it, aggressive police clampdown, arrests. Racist thugs with criminal records violently intimidating regular and vulnerable people: it's fine.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026
Some lunchtime reading for you www.iwm.org.uk/history/seco...
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Displacement and the Second World War
The Second World War ended in 1945, but the consequences continued for many years afterwards. Find out what happened to people displaced by the Second World War.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 07/09/2026
Happy Monday. Imagine fleeing war, famine and persecution, leaving everything and everyone behind, to be be met by this lot like this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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What is Patriot Platform, the far-right group that descended on Dover and Portsmouth?
Campaign groups say the anti-migrant collective, which gathers together a series of local groups, is home to a host of violent criminals
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 06/09/2026
Humanity as a whole could be working towards a different kind of future, but we aren't. Resistance is not futile, but it's not proving enough. But just giving up like this -GenAI as "the water in which the next generation will swim" is facile, cowardly technological determinism
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 05/09/2026
“Using artificial intelligence, these images were stitched into a three-dimensional map of every neuron and the synapses where they communicate.” www.ukri.org/news/world-f...
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World-first map of a male fly brain a win for neuroscience
For the first time, scientists have mapped every connection in the brain and nerve cord of an adult male animal.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026
For your delectation 21percent.org?p=4327
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The Curious Case of James Orr - 21percent.org
James Orr is an Associate Professor at Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity and, since February 2026, Head of Policy at Reform UK. He has described Nigel Farage's party as an "insurgent right-wing force" a...
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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 03/09/2026
Cambridge university was ordered to pay £5,000 compensation to a former PhD student who was found to have been bullied by Professor James Orr, who is also Reform UK's head of policy as.ft.com/r/c0b319f3-2...
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026
You can always choose to (not) watch this as I have and (not) get depressed and angry again; it's Friday after all www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Read Byline Times archive on the associate professor of Divinity, head of Policy for Reform “I'm raising a lot of money for [REFORM UK] .... It gives me enormous power in the party” ✍️ James Orr Channel 4.
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 Free  online access to the NEWS that shapeS our print edition out SOON IN PRINT & DIGITAL EDITION 89 – SEPTEMBER 2026 PLAYING WITH FIRE The fossil fuel age is burning itself alive.We know where this is headed.Why are we not doing anything? Nafeez Ahmed, Clive Lewis MP, Asad Rehman, Caroline Lucas BURNHAM’S CHALLENGE #ReformUncovered Got […]
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 04/09/2026
Posted on a whatsapp chat with a friend, "philosophically it's very interesting because it seems the working hypothesis of current GenAI people who aspire to General AI is that the ability to emote is in the end the result of quantitative processes"
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026
Ben Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is Reform UK’s second biggest donor www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK gets another £4m from crypto billionaire pardoned by Donald Trump
Ben Delo, who was convicted in 2022 for failure to apply anti-money laundering controls, is party’s second biggest donor
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026
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Ben Jennings on the rise of datacentres in Britain – cartoon
The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for, despite fears over the growing environmental impact of the AI boom
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026
I supervised PG student projects over the summer, and as the submission deadline approaches, it’s been so nice to see how much they progressed and how they became experts in their topics and approaches.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 03/09/2026
Rest in power www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Gloria Steinem, groundbreaking feminist campaigner, dies aged 92
Famous for the 1963 exposé in which she worked as a Playboy Bunny, her books and journalism took on many varieties of discrimination
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SelfMadeHero @selfmadehero.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UPCOMING EVENT! Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics On October 1st, join Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and @zaraslattery.bsky.social with host @ernestopriego.com for this special talk on #neurodiversty and #disability representation in comics! 🔗 buff.ly/2Ldpo1G
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026
Brexit means Brexit... migrant solidarity, _and_, also tired of these stories trying to elicit sympathy because it's middleclass white folk. How many migrant people of colour continue to suffer unfair immigration laws and their stories are rarely covered? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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British man deported from Sweden despite living there since childhood
John Sellers, 34, who moved with his family to Sweden aged 10, has been ejected despite his recent marriage to a Swede
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026
Sigh. Brought out the SAD lamp.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026
Captain, it's Wednesday. :-(
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 02/09/2026
Kind reminder, in a month's time! Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics- A Panel Discussion with Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and Zara Slattery ernestopriego.com/2026/08/20/p... @selfmadehero.bsky.social
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Panels & Perspectives: Disability and Neurodiversity in Comics- A Panel Discussion with Francisco de la Mora, Gemma Plum, and Zara Slattery
Looking forward to chairing this panel on Thursday 1st October 2026, 6pm, room AG01, College Building, City St George’s, University of London.
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The Comics Journal @comicsjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
‘We were trying to aggravate everybody with Bitterkomix’: The Anton Kannemeyer Interview by Robert Aman www.tcj.com/we-were-tryi...
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'We were trying to aggravate everybody with Bitterkomix': The Anton Kannemeyer Interview - The Comics Journal
Nowadays, unfortunately, satire isn’t even taught at many art schools anymore in fear of offending the students.
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